Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past

This paper examines the connection between art and nationalism in Chinese culture and asserts that the recent market boom and price jump in Chinese fine art reflects a concerted yet conflicted effort by the Chinese government and Chinese society as a whole to reconcile with a problematic twentieth-c...

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Main Author:	Chen, Karen Y
Format:	Others
Published:	Scholarship @ Claremont 2014
Subjects:	chinese art china art market art history nationalism antiquarianism Asian Art and Architecture
Online Access:	http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/877 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1946&context=cmc_theses

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spelling	ndltd-CLAREMONT-oai-scholarship.claremont.edu-cmc_theses-19462014-05-25T03:33:35Z Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past Chen, Karen Y This paper examines the connection between art and nationalism in Chinese culture and asserts that the recent market boom and price jump in Chinese fine art reflects a concerted yet conflicted effort by the Chinese government and Chinese society as a whole to reconcile with a problematic twentieth-century past. The paper first delves into the historical practice of utilizing art to construct political narratives though Ming-Qing dynasties before examining how antiquarianism was utilized by Mao Zedong himself and by the modern day Chines Communist Party. 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/877 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1946&context=cmc_theses © 2014 Karen Y. Chen CMC Senior Theses Scholarship @ Claremont chinese art china art market art history nationalism antiquarianism Asian Art and Architecture
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description	This paper examines the connection between art and nationalism in Chinese culture and asserts that the recent market boom and price jump in Chinese fine art reflects a concerted yet conflicted effort by the Chinese government and Chinese society as a whole to reconcile with a problematic twentieth-century past. The paper first delves into the historical practice of utilizing art to construct political narratives though Ming-Qing dynasties before examining how antiquarianism was utilized by Mao Zedong himself and by the modern day Chines Communist Party.
author	Chen, Karen Y
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title	Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past
title_short	Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past
title_full	Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past
title_fullStr	Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past
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title_sort	constructing historical truth: an examination of the chinese art market as a reflection of china’s concerted but conflicted contemporary reconciliation with its problematic past
publisher	Scholarship @ Claremont
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url	http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/877 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1946&context=cmc_theses
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Constructing Historical Truth: An Examination of the Chinese Art Market As A Reflection of China’s Concerted but Conflicted Contemporary Reconciliation with its Problematic Past

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